these are the same sorts of policies that mitt romney would pursue now, they lead to the economic crisis in the first place. why would rereturn to them, we are starting to teu we were losing more than 800,000 jobs a month. manufacturing is resurgent, gm is coming back, why would rereturn to the same sorts of policies that crushed the middle class in the first place stpha. bill: the crushing comment was in the a mistake. >> it was a specific reference to the policies that crushed the economy and devastated the middle class and we certainly can't return to this. bill: do you standby it? >> do we think that the middle class was buried as a result of the middle class, absolutely. bill: you standby the comment of joe biden. all right i hear you. what is the most difficult question that president obama has to answer tonight? >> well, i'll leave that to the moderators. here is our goal tonight. it sound like mitt romney has prepared a bunch of zingers, we'll leave that to david letterman, i don't think that is what the american people are looking for. we view the debate like we view the convent